One of the faces of women fighters: the history of woman has known none like her in the kinds of torments and pains, and known none like her in the kinds of heroism, struggle, and striving.
A great story, with few equals among the great stories; in every one of its letters there are drops of blood and flayings of the heart. It is the story of the soul rising above the body, the story of good rising above evil, and of weakness above strength.
A child wretched to the deepest roots of wretchedness — blind, mute, deaf; her eye in darkness, her hearing in darkness, her tongue in darkness — who rebels against her great calamity, subdues her bleeding pains, binds up her wounds, and lives for life, in the most splendid and beautiful of all its beauty and splendor...
That is the story of the girl Helen Keller.
This “Helen Keller” is the most wretched girl the human mind can conceive.
She was born in 1880 in America, and lived a year and part of a year as all happy children live; then she was struck by fever, and she came out of that illness having lost her sight, her hearing, and her sense of smell.
A crushing calamity descended upon this child and set her down like a worn-out rag in her parents’ house... Her father and mother felt the burden of this calamity upon the little girl’s shoulders, and felt in the depths of their conscience that they had committed against her an unforgivable crime. How often they wished her death, that she might rest from her torment, and they from the torment of conscience.
But the girl did not die, for the will of fate was preparing for her pages black and grim.
And as though heaven wished to take its final revenge on this little blind, deaf girl, matters ended with her becoming mute; for the child, having lost her hearing, could no longer learn words, and her tongue was tied.
But heaven was preparing her to be a splendid model of
splendid heroism. She entered the school for the blind at seven years of age; and her teacher saw that “Helen” was a new puzzle worthy of attention and study, and threw herself into her instruction with a will. She taught her, by means of touch, the language of the deaf and mute, then taught her to read by the “Braille” method for the blind.
At ten years of age the child could speak; then her sense of smell returned to her... a first miracle... Then the girl sat for examination at one of America’s famous colleges, and took her certificates with distinction.
A second great miracle.
The girl’s fame spread throughout America, and in 1902 she produced a book on the story
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